Identify and organize informal habitats (Case study: Boroujerd Ebrahim Abad neighborhood)

Most of the organizations and institutions do not have specific program in unusual neighborhoods, including the case, and those who implemented, or have implemented some programs or are going to implement, the activities are just from the specific angle of their own organizational profits, and cannot make any difference in these neighborhoods. These programs cannot make considerable changes in the mentioned neighborhoods, and on the other hand, empowerment staff has facilitator and guide role in the empowerment of the target neighborhoods and in addition to intelligent use all capacity of the organizations and different governmental and public institutions, it is necessary to use all capacities and capabilities of the residents of these areas. Ebrahim Abad neighborhood which is one of the main and old neighborhoods of Boroujerd City, with an area of 493206 square meters, has about 17244 residents. This neighborhood is in within the limits of region 8 of Boroujerd City. Considering that the area of region 8 is 2687046 square meters, the Ebrahim Abad is 18.35% of total area of the region. The population of the region is also 43607, so Ebrahim Abad neighborhood constitutes 39.5% of total population of region 8. To explain the subject in this study, the criteria including structural and urban planning, fundamental and service, social and cultural, economic, legal and ownership, operational and environmental principles have been exploited that, considering all of them, it is possible to recognize the neighborhoods with informal settlements from the urban official neighborhoods. These principles have been used in this study in order to identify the informal neighborhoods of Boroujerd City from its other neighborhoods. As the research method in the informal settlement neighborhoods, the number of households and neighborhood area were assessed on the base of latest statistic. Sample numbers were specified with Couchran sampling method. Also, the type of sampling was random. After completing the questionnaire and data collection, the results were analyzed and by swot and were used in the process of research. In this way, all tools and methods have been used in these studies, as much as possible. The result of this survey is to identify some issues and problems such as texture problems ((poor access, insufficient lighting, poor coverage, exhaustion, etc.), lack of fundamental services in various areas, youth unemployment, low income, seasonal employment, exhaustion and low quality construction and houses materials, garbage and sewage and herd of homes and annoying activities in environment and insects and sly animals, that some strategies and solutions are presented in order to eliminate them.